On 25/07/18 00:07, James Le Cuirot wrote: <snip> > My initial migration guide was rather scary as changing CHOST is never > easy and I was concerned that such a guide was never going to be > sufficiently palatable for a news item. I didn't expect to be able to > script it up but I gave it a shot and I'm actually quite happy with > the result. I've run it on the newest (but quite old) glibc stage3, the > newest musl stage3, and the newest glibc hardened stage3. All went > well. It aborts on failure but allows you to rerun it if necessary and > it will skip the time-consuming builds that have already completed. > Please give it a try if you can and leave some feedback. Cool - well done, will give it a roll this end...
[1] was the bug where we were tackling migration attempts .. > Obviously we will need new stage tarballs so that new systems can start > with the new triplet. The official arm stage tarballs are ancient and I > have already prepared new stages for armv7a/glibc and armv6j/musl. > veremitz has been busy building others. The RelEng team has agreed to > put these up once the profiles go live. Hopefully regular stage > auto-builds will return in the near future. > > I will now follow up this mail with others tagged [arm17] containing: > > 1. The news item (including a link to the migration script) > 2. A toolchain-funcs.eclass patch > 3. A crossdev patch > > Catalyst will need updating too but I will leave it to the RelEng team > to decide whether they want to update the existing specs or create new > ones. > > Cheers, The specs 'tree' is a bit of a mess already .. perhaps we can look at giving it a heavy prune... ?? Updated arm17-stage3's should be building over the weekend all being well, and no further hardware collapses back at base :/ tfw! [1] - https://bugs.gentoo.org/602440
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